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I'm this old
I remember when I first saw floppies and how amazing it was to load things instantly instead of waiting minutes for a game to load from a cassette tape.
Lol you rich kids and your cassette drives. I cut my teeth on my friend's VIC-20 which didn't have a hard disk or a tape drive (they were available but my friend's parents couldn't afford one). If we wanted to play a game, we had to type it in in BASIC every time.
My ZX Spectrum clone didn't have a "tape drive", it had a cable that you could use to connect any tape player to it. We didn't have a specialized tape player for it, we attached the same one we played music on.
I can't remember if the tape drive came with a TRS-80, but I do remember using the tape drive port to get sound from games like pacman. Basically it was hack to use the save to cassette to make sounds for the computer.
I had the pleasure of working with 8” floppy drives with the Social Security Administration.
This is so old, so old that Memorex is where my dad worked back in the day. I'm also old. Goddamnit.
Did your dad ever find out if it was real, or if it was Memorex?
Maybe it's Maybeline!
If you get old enough everyone's parents used to work for a big tech company. My mother who can barely operate her phone, used to work for a company that manufactured microchips.
My mother used to work for a company that made magnetic core memory.
That's the kind of memory that predates semiconductors and it was assembled by hand using gold wire and tiny ferrite rings.
She does know how to use a PC and has a tablet, though 😀
ahh yes, the good old bunch of games on a disk. my grandpa went so hard that he had a printed catalog of which games were on which number-stickered disk
Holy shit… I’m Pitfall old too. What a shit game.
You shut your pretty little whore mouth! I loved Pitfall!
.......but also I was 4, and as we all know, kids are stupid.
When I was four I loved pong.
I read this while I was power walking to the bus stop. I read it as:
I had SO MANY questions. None of which I wanted answered.
Pong is still arguably a balanced, and therefore good game. Especially if you were playing the Atari or Texas Instruments versions, since those may have been some of the last mainstream video games that didn't cheat in favor of anyone. Neither the player or the computer was favored, which became the norm for most video games rather quickly thereafter.
Both. A nerd new nerds. The Ti friends had that shoot ‘em up gunslinger game… it was basically pong with a hat and guns.
LOAD "*",8,1 . I was there, too shakes cane and ruffles grey hairs (It was a wonderful era. The current generation doesn't know what they missed.)
Non No Falsch Nee
all of those work in German.
Fucking Geos man..... I remember doing homework on its word processor...